Michigan Leadership Institutes:  Improving Human Services

Promoting Leadership Throughout Child Serving Agencies

March 12-13, 2011
April 30-May 1, 2012

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(Institute is limited to the first 50 registrants. Deadline extended until Feb. 15, 2011)
Registration Fee: $600

Please contact Gwenda Summers at 517-346-8043 with questions.

Lansing Center
333 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing, MI 48933

LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN SYSTEMS CHANGE:

An Institute for Leaders in Agencies Providing Services and Supports to Youth and Families

Addressing challenges in times of turbulent economic downturns, changing demographics, and shifts in how services are provided calls for leadership that continues to embrace the ethics, values and principles of inter-agency collaboration, youth, family, and community partnerships, and cultural and linguistic competence. In these challenging times we need leaders who show competency in fostering system change. The role of the leader in times of change requires each of us to develop the knowledge, skills and tools to be able to differentiate between technical and adaptive challenges and employ strategies to shift values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors among individuals and systems to support the changes we seek. We as leaders need to stimulate change, manage change, and celebrate change in this complex environment. This Institute will cover eight steps in the change process articulated by Cohen and Kotter in the Heart of Change. Each step requires shifts in our own leadership practices. As we incorporate these shifts, we will more effectively influence both individual and systemic behavior change and implement a vision for children and families that up to now has only been a dream.

Institute participants will be able to:

1. Identify the difference between leadership, authority and management
2. Identify adaptive work (that requires shifts in values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors)
3. Develop skills to support their new roles as change agents
4. Enumerate and distinguish the eight steps of the change management process from developing
   a sense of urgency to communicating for buy-in to keeping the change going
5. Develop skills to identify and move beyond resistance with strategies to shift behaviors

Facilitated by: Ellen B. Kagen, MSW

Accolades

“The Leadership Academy allowed me an opportunity to stretch my skills, look at my inward abilities, and discover the essence of true leadership. In my role as a leader within the Department of Human Services, I recognize that when we respect our employees, build trust within our agency, and involve capable and creative people, we exponentially expand our potentials as an organization. Although the Leadership Academy was very demanding, and certainly a challenge, it was a very rewarding experience.”
Annie Ray, District Manager / Wayne County Department of Human Services

“Complex, stimulating, profound, inspirational - it not only equipped me with great tools, resources and knowledge to address the process of change, but opened my eyes to my own behaviors, giving me practical tools and techniques to use to become a more strategic, effective and intentional leader.”
Kathy Kovalchik-Lacko, System of Care Coordinator / West Michigan Community Mental Health

“As a leader in system transformation in the Detroit-Wayne County CMH Agency, the Michigan Leadership Institute gave me the foundation needed to reframe my understanding of Leadership as well as a clear understanding of my responsibilities as a leader. I will be encouraging others involved in systems transformation to participate in the Michigan Leadership Institute. I believe this framework for leadership will allow those of us on the forefront of developing systems of care to transform how systems serve children, youth and families.”
Carlynn Nichols, Director, Children’s Initiatives / Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency